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"John Amatt is a modern adventurer who can not only spin a great yard, but who possesses the rare knack of turning his journeys into universal revelations that guide his listeners on how to prosper in the global village." Peter C. Newman, Best-selling Author and Business Journalist. John is Founder & President of One Step Beyond WorldWide, an innovative motivational company, whose mission is to encourage people to push beyond their self-imposed limitations, to be more personally accountable for the results of their own actions, and to embrace effective teamwork by valuing the contribution of others. In this capacity, he has delivered more than 2,000+ presentations and seminars in 49 countries and has been called “The World’s Best Adventure Speaker”. A native of Great Britain, for the past 40 years he has been a resident of the Canadian Rocky Mountains and is the Founding Director of the Banff Mountain Film Festival, widely recognized as the world’s premiere showcase of adventure documentary films. John is renowned in the international mountaineering community for making the first ever climb of Europe's highest and steepest mountain face - the 5000 foot "Vertical Mile" Troll Wall in Norway. He was leader of an early climbing expedition to Western China, which used camels to approach a 25,000-foot mountain before skiing to the summit, this being perhaps the highest peak in the world to have been ascended and descended entirely on skis. And he was a leader of the legendary 1982 Canadian Everest Expedition. Specialties: Presentation themes focus on "Change", "Teamwork", "Learning through Adversity", "Achieving Peak Performance", "Questioning the status quo", "Achieving with the Adventure Attitude", "Climbing Your Own Everest", "No Mountain Too High".